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11/02/06
Story by Peggy Graham

‘Kansas Doctor in Saudi Arabia’ Presented at JCCC

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Enrqiue Chaves, M.D., will present A Kansas Doctor in Saudi Arabia from 1- 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, in Craig Community Auditorium at Johnson County Community College. The presentation, part of the psychology colloquium series, is free and open to the public.

In addition to talking about his medical practice in Saudi Arabia, Chaves will talk about cross-cultural issues.

Chaves, a native of Costa Rica, earned his medical degree from Oklahoma University and trained in pediatrics and neurology at Mayo Clinic. He went to Saudi Arabia in 1996 to set up a training program in pediatric neurology and to study neurogenetic and neurometabolic diseases because of their high incidence in the Saudi population. Chaves returned to the United States in 2002 and is currently a clinical professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He just completed writing a book on tropical medicine during the construction of the Panama Canal.

For more information, contact Pete Peterson, JCCC psychology professor, at 913-469-8500, ext. 2461.